A Floral Designs (Ayana) did my wedding florals. There are many reasons why I would not recommend her.
On our initial call she seemed competent and confident in her ability to execute my vision. She made me feel comfortable and at ease and I w...as excited to work with her. In the last few weeks before the wedding her communication became more spotty.
On the day of the wedding she showed up late, my coordinator could not get ahold of her, and she came unprepared. She did not bring all of the greenery for the ceiling greenery, or a ladder to hang the ceiling greenery in our tent as per our contract. She did not have the boutonnières completed, and my husband had to go without his for our first look.
Most egregiously she did not even finish our contracted crescent arch, the most important floral installment and the most extravagant, which was contracted to be 8’ tall in one side and 10’ on the other before our ceremony or reception. We had clear inspiration pictures of the tall arch that was supposed to be behind us at our ceremony, and what we ended up with was two uneven 5.5’-ish pillars, which were made mostly of ferns (which was not at all in my wedding vision board) and overall really ruined the visual of my ceremony. She was also still working on those small pillars until past the time when our ceremony was supposed to start which was very embarrassing for our guests to have to sit, watching her work, and wait for the ceremony to start late- and they were uneven and less than halfway complete in the end. She had absolutely no hustle to get anything done, and did not acknowledge the fact that her work was incomplete.
She took no responsibility for any of this when we tried to discuss with her after the fact, making up excuses instead of recognizing areas of improvement, and ended up only giving us a 50% refund on just the arch despite not even delivering either the arch or ceiling greenery we paid for.
Her poor product delivered on my wedding day compared to her portfolio made me question the integrity of her portfolio. I found many of her images on other designer’s portfolios.